Telephone-directory.



No. 873,259. PATENTED 13130.10, 1907.

c. RNAPP. TELEPHONE DIRECTORY. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 25. 1907.

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To all whom it may' concern: r Be itknown that I, CnARLEs EKNAPP, a lcitizenof the- United States, residing at Trenton, inthe county of' Mercer' and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and usefull Improvements in Telephone-Direc'tories;` and I do hereby ,declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descrip.-` tion of the. invention, suoli as will. enable others skilled. in the art'to whichit appertains to make and use; the same, reference. being `had to the .accompanying drawings,

fand to letters 'of'reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to a telephone directory, and also combines, therewith, a

y writing pad for making memoranda, and the device is 'constructed to be attached to a telephone, either of the desk orwall type, and the memorandum pad is hinged to the directory portion of the device, and when not in use is thrown over on its pivot to uncover' the directory part of the structure.

The device ,embodies a neat, cheap and compact holding means for the memorandum. Sad, and the hinge between the memoranuxn pad and the directory is adapted to lock the pad against any further swinging, after it has traveled out of the way.

The device is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side viewof the directory showing it attached to a desk phone, a por-I tion of which is indicated in dotted outlinet Fig. 2 is a top view of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan view, detached, of' the plate for holding the memorandum pad, and Fig. 4 is a section on line 4, 4, showing a memorandum padin place, Fig. 5 isa cross-section of the whole structure showing a .modiiied forni of attachment for allowing the securing of thedirectory to a wall telephone. n

The lplate 10 acts as a base plate for the telephone directory portion, and it is provided, on the ends with aseries ol loops 11.

vA second plate 12'has the loops 13 to be ptit in-y place, oif'iwhen they'are in place they be installed. To remove the plate"l2,'l"roin the plate 10, the. pintle 14 is withdrawn by means of the end 15, and the plates are easily separated; When they areassembled, however, and thev pintle is in place, when the plate-'12 is thrown over on the hooks 16, the sl'otsl ride/over the hooks 16, and the hooks 16 have the portions`19 which can be made Patented Dec. 10,1907.

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The portions 19 can be made straight, as shown in thev illustrations, going oli' alt a tangent'and acting to lock the plate 12 byreason of the end 2U' of the slots 18 engaging the' portions 19 of the hooks 16. This is shown in dotted outline in Fig. 1. provided with marginal ridges 21 which serve to guide a memorandum pad, and a tongue 22 is struck up from the plate 12 and is arranged 'between the stiif card-board bottom 23, of the memorandum pad 24, and the last page of the pad. This tongue 22 points .toward'the hinge of the plates, and the hooks' 16 thus act to prevent the sliding oli' ofa padA by accident, and the removal of the pad necessitates the unhingin of the plates.

It will be seen from 511s construction that The plate 12 is l a memorandum pad can be securely fastened to the plate 12, and is provided against transverse displacement by the ridges 21, and the whole structure makes a cheap retaining device for the memorandum pad. To secure the directory to a telephone of the desk type, a strip 25 is riveted or otherwise' fastened to the bottom of the plate 10, and`a semicircular portion 26 is vbent up from it. An opposed circular section 27 assists in embracing the post of` the desk phone, and the screws 28 bind the Whole structure tightly together.

lin Fig. 5 I show a device for attaching the directory to a wall phone, and the directory is laid onto the top ofthe vtablet 29, of

the telephone, and a'hook portion 30, preferably integral with .the plate 10, is placed over one edge of t` e tablet 29 and partly underneath, A ma ually operated screw 31 is then used to clamp the directory on the tablet 29. I 1The index cards of this device are provided With the usual form of tabs 17 a extending out from the sides ofthe cards and rangement of the s.

Having thusvdescribed my invention, what I claim is 1. A telephone directory comprising a pair of plates hinged on one end, index cards on vone plate, a memorandum pad on the second plate, the second plate having slots therein, hooks secured v to one plate and passing through the slots in the second plate', the hooks for a portion of their length being concentric to the hinge of the plates and having a straightened portion on their ends, the hooks thus acting to limit the outward swing of the plates.

` 2. A telephone directory comprising a pair of plates having loops on one end, a remov' able pintle in the loops to form a hinge, one

Vof the plates having slots therein, hooks on4 the other plate passing through the slots,

the hooks being concentric for a portion of their length to the hinge of the plates, and having straightened portions on'their ends, and means for attaching the directory to a telephone.

3. A telephone directory comprising a plate having means for attaching it to a telephone, a second plate mounted pivotally pn one end of the first plate, a pair of hooks on the first plate passing through the second plate, the hooks having straightened ends, indexcards on the first plate, the index cards having perforations on the hooks, and means on the second plate for attaching a memo randum pad thereto.

4. A telephone directory comprising a plate having means for attaching it to a telcphone, a second plate mounted pivotally on one end of the first plate, a pair of hooks on the first plate passing through the second plate, the hooks having strai htened ends, index cards on the irst plate, t e index cards having perfor-ations on the hooks, and a tongue on the second plate projectinor to- Ward the hooks, anda memorandum pad slid on the tongue.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing, I have hereunto set my hand this 16th day of February 1907.

CHARLES E. NAPP.

Witnessesg E. P. WARNER,

WM. H. CAMFIELD. 

